AusVarmint

Here is some reading for Dennis and others interested. It is all first hand from my personal research with my BSA Hornet with a .25 barrel installed and the rifle having been set up by its developer/ designer John Bowkett in UK: ........ Please read at leisure as there is a lot of material, all original. It only represents a small % of the total done so far.

These are more or less in chronological order beginning in 2009 :

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... rnet+-----

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... quot%3B+--

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... OA+-++Long

http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... with+pics-

Head to head with some good sporting centre fire rifles:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... bench+rest

Long range US style "plinking":
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... o+be+home-

Field accuracy and a game I play with starlings:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... ++GRAPHIC-

51 yd group and" incidenta"l fly shoot:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... +51+yards-

Starling sniping Part 2 71 yards:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... -+GRAPHIC-

.25 200 yard "cold" one shot using well researched trajectory plot programme; and paint tin penetration:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... t%3B+PD+--

220 yard and 300 yard .25 cal shooting:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/th ... l+report+-

First group with JSB Predator Polymag hollow point hunting pellets. These are the best hunting pellet in .25 cal for range to at least 75 yd and under:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... Hornet+-25

Polymag .25 cal effect on a pest species GRAPHIC so don't open if terminal effects research upsets the reader:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... -+GRAPHIC-

More about the rifle than about the calibre per se:
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... t+44+fpe+-

My "Yrrah Roll Test" developed over the years for batching pellets in three ways. Head sizing with calipers or micrometers cannot discriminate as accurately as this method (does).
http://www.network54.com/Forum/79537/me ... interested

So Dennis and all, that is just some of the research results I have from the last couple of years since starting to shoot the .25 cal and is exclusive to the PCP John Bowkett BSA Hornet shooting at 44 to 48 fpe depending upon pellet wt. I normally shoot 25.4 gr JSB Kings at around 890 fps .

There are currently 4 pellets in .25 that I would use depending upon objective. JSB Kings 25.4 gr; JSB Predator Polymags of 26 gr; H&N Baracuda/ Beeman Kodiaks 31+ gr; Benjamin (Crosman) in the 27 gr class.

Hope you get something from this summary beyond a late night's reading ........ Kind regards, Harry.

Harry,

This is wonderful stuff.